Singing Every Country in the World

Humanities Enrichment has recently posted a nice video where Yakko of the Animaniacs sings every country in the world:

Career Sighted - Short Videos About Career Options

Career Sighted - Short Videos About Career Options posted recently by Free Technology for Teachers must be a useful resource for introducing and teaching the topic of jobs and professions to students.

The Power of Words

The Power of Words from Purple Feather - Change Your Words. Change Your World.

Warmers from British Council

Warmers are always of much help, the more the teacher knows the better. Effective warmers puts the lesson in the right way and that's very important. Here are the warmers from British Council with more ideas in the comments.

WingClips - Movie Clips that Illustrate and Inspire

WingClips is quite an interesting resource - movie clips from famous films. The clips can be downloaded and used in class. The clips can be searched by Theme, Category, or Movie Title.
In Class: The clips are short and can be easily incorporated into the lesson illustrating or supporting the idea of the lesson. The clips can be used at the beginning of the lesson to introduce, to anticipate the topic. In the flow of the lesson they can be the source of the discussion.

What's Your Favourite Food with the Premier League

Learn English with the Premier League | Premier Skills English presents What's Your Favourite Food Pack. The Pack includes Before You Watch: Questions, The Video (embedded) - the interview with fifteen football fans living or studying in the UK, interactive Activity: Do You Know Where the Food Comes From, interactive Activity: Write the Nationality, and Your Turn: Answer the Questions in the Comments.

In Class: The pack is very good for using as a part of the lesson about food, in the sequence as it is given, or just the way the teacher needs it.

Humanities Enrichment

Humanities Enrichment - Inspiration for history, literature, & social sciences - the collection of interactive resources on various topics: videos, visuals, infographics and others with the links to the original sites.

Exploring with National Geographic

Kids.National Geographic - an awesome place to spend time with kids. Interesting, interactive, useful - much information to get and facts to explore. Teaching English with this site can become real fun - much to read, to play, to watch; the teacher can take something for a lesson or base the whole lesson on some material. The site is very good for students' project working.

Watch This!

The Kid Should See This is a nice video site where kids can watch good instructional videos. The idea is to provide kids with a safe watching environment. The videos cover various topics: nature, art, music, science, technology and more.

KIDEOS collects appropriate for kids videos of various kind. The large collection to choose from.

National Geographic|Kids - worth watching short videos on different topics: Animals, History, Science and others.

Videos in Class

The History of English in Ten Minutes offered by The Open University is an entertaining romp through "the History of English" - 1600 years of history in 10 one-minute bites, about the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespear to America and the Internet. There are ten short series and one combined clip containing all the parts. This source could be quite interesting and useful for a certain group of students.

TED-Ed offers video lessons on various subjects supplying each one with a multiple-choice test and the list of additional resources for the topic.

explania.com offers hundreds of animated explanations, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, some of them could be easily used in class. The categories are Ecology, Health, Money, Opinions and Trends, Software, Sports, Technology, Work, Companies. The videos are free to embed on a web page.

The history of the football - Explania

Video For Kids

Kids TV 123 -  many nice educational songs and videos for children for major efl concepts: ABC, Numbers, Colours, Baby Animals and others. There is always a minute at the lesson to watch a 2-3 min video illustrating some vocabulary or grammar thing - a good way to make a lesson more interesting, dynamic and productive.

British Council|Learn English Kids offers Grammar Videos section where Gran helps the girl understand how to use English grammar. There are the scripts and worksheets available. The introduction to a video tells what grammar it is about. These videos could be a nice way to introduce or practice, or even test students' knowledge.

Geobeats

Geobeats offers great videos on United Kingdom-London (the dream of any teacher of English) and the world's countries and their cities. The videos are mostly short with tapescripts offered - very useful.

http://bit.ly/uiPHg4

BBC News video

BBC News video is one more great BBC service which could be of much help in teaching. BBC News video offers video material on a variety of topics (World, Business, Science and Technology, Entertainment, UK, US and Canada). One-minute World News could be a good motivational resource for a lesson.

BrainPOP

BrainPOP is a collection of educational games and movies categorized under the main school subjects. There is a free watch section available. The BrainPOP Educators is of special value offering many resources, ideas, teachers' and students' activities, discussion opportunities and many others.
The Brain POP's Featured Movie and POP a Joke are on the BrainPop Page oif this blog.

neoK12

neoK12 offers a wide choice of educational videos, lessons and games for school kids. The materials are given in Physical Science, Life Science, Human Body, Earth and Space, Geography, Social Studies, History, Math, Fun Video and English sections. The English section with its Phonics and Rhymes is especially interesting for EFL teachers.

Jolly Phonics - A to Z - Part 2/3

More Phonics and English Lessons at NeoK12.com  

Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie

Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie is a great place containing wonderful lessons with plans and all the materials needed. The organisation of the site is very convenient as you can search the lesson by Language level, Learner type, Time, Main Activity, Language aim, Topic, Material. The teachers'comments to each lesson give an opportunity to see how the material works in real - very convenient and useful.

Art.sy

Art.sy is of great help to prepare and conduct the lessons on art,  or just to enjoy various works of art online. It provides the large collection of contemporary art available online. Works from all cultures and time periods, the information about artists and art movement are accessible for study and enjoyment. 

Vocabulary.co.il  is a vocabulary website with flash online word games. They include an online word search, an online crossword puzzle, hangman online, unscrambles and others. The fun of the games can help both native and foreign learners of English build their English language vocabulary skills. There are word games for all levels of English.

Learning Chocolate

The bright thing I have come across today is Learning Chocolate - Vocabulary Learning Platform - USEFUL vocabulary, ready-made exercises, nice pictures. Suitable for using in class, at home with your own children, with different age groups.

Exam English

Exam English is for studying for an English language exam, contains Free Online Practice Tests for the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET. Offers the free level test, the detail information about each exam and the practice material as  an example of the test. Convenitent to have all that in one place.